Steve Ballmer

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Steve Ballmer (2008)

Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer (born March 24, 1956 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American entrepreneur and investor . From 2000 to 2014 he was CEO of the software company Microsoft . He has been the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball club since August 2014 .

Life

As the son of the Swiss immigrant Fritz Hans Ballmer, Ballmer grew up in Detroit. He graduated from Harvard University in the 1970s , where he met Bill Gates . He graduated in 1977 with a magna cum laude BA in applied mathematics and economics. He then worked for Procter & Gamble for two years . He then began an MBA course at Stanford University , which he dropped when Bill Gates offered to work at Microsoft, despite winning two $ 10,000 prizes as the best freshman student.

On June 11, 1980, he became Microsoft's first manager. When Microsoft became a stock corporation in 1981, Ballmer held 8% of the capital based on a bonus agreement. In 1993, his shares were worth over a billion US dollars for the first time.

Over the years, Ballmer led several areas at Microsoft, including operating system development, sales and customer service, before becoming President (a post subordinate to the CEO) in 1998. On January 13, 2000, he succeeded Bill Gates as CEO - Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. In retrospect, Ballmer described the Windows Vista operating system as his biggest flaw.

Steve Ballmer described Linux in 2001 as "a cancer that affects everything it touches in terms of intellectual property." He criticized the fact that open source software with the GNU General Public License is not compatible with your own software and that you also have to put it under the free license if you use parts of the open software, even if large parts of the company's own software are independent and independent Parts represented. Ballmer even interrupted his skiing vacation in Switzerland to personally ask the Mayor of Munich not to switch to GNU / Linux. However, his request was unsuccessful and the city of Munich switched from Windows to LiMux . At the end of November 2017, the city council decided to end the project and convert all computers to Windows by 2020.

On August 23, 2013 Microsoft announced in a press release that Steve Ballmer would retire as CEO of the company within twelve months. A committee including Bill Gates was looking for a successor until Satya Nadella (previously Executive Vice-President for Cloud Services) was appointed as the new CEO on February 4, 2014 . Ballmer then became a member of Microsoft's supervisory board , but left it again on August 19, 2014. On August 20, 2014, Ballmer left Microsoft at his own request.

On August 12, 2014, Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers basketball club from Donald Sterling for two billion US dollars (around 1.49 billion euros).

family

Ballmer married Microsoft employee Connie Snyder in 1990, with whom he has three sons.

Varia

Steve Ballmer is known for his extremely extroverted appearances at corporate events, hence the nickname Monkeyboy .

Ballmer is not, as is often claimed, an honorary citizen of the Lausen BL community in Switzerland , where his father was entitled to live .

capital

Steve Ballmer is a multi-billionaire and one of the richest people in the world. On the Forbes 2018 list, his fortune is given at around 38.4 billion US dollars. This puts him in 22nd place on Forbes' list of the richest people in the world.

Web links

Commons : Steve Ballmer  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Steve Ballmer  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ heise online: Steve Ballmer is 60: The man who ran the business. In: heise online. Retrieved March 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Steve Ballmer says goodbye to Bill Gates in tears. In: finanznachrichten.de , accessed on August 20, 2014
  3. ^ A b Reto Knobel: Microsoft boss: ancestors were Swiss, "who lived in caves" ( Memento from April 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berner Zeitung
  4. ^ A b Paul Andrews: Microsoft's Heir Apparent - Steve Ballmer. In: The Seattle Times , January 25, 1998
  5. ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Ballmer-im-Interview-Vista-war-mein-groesster-Fehler-1942191.html
  6. ↑ Ballmer: “Linux is a cancer”. In: theregister.co.uk. Retrieved August 9, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Sebastian Brinkmann: Steve Ballmer fights personally for Munich. In: ZDNet. April 4, 2003, accessed November 26, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Stefan Krempl: Final end for LiMux: Munich city council puts the penguin in front of the door . Heise Online . November 23, 2017. Accessed February 21, 2018.
  9. ↑ Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months. In: microsoft.com , accessed August 20, 2014
  10. ↑ Stephan: Steve Ballmer is leaving the Microsoft board. In: Dr. Windows. August 19, 2014, archived from the original on August 21, 2014 ; Retrieved August 19, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Steve Ballmer Steps Down From Microsoft's Board. In: techcrunch.com , accessed August 20, 2014
  12. ^ Ballmer officially becomes the new owner of Clippers. In: NBA news , Aug 12, 2014.
  13. ↑ Clippers sale perfect: Steve Ballmer takes over NBA scandal club. In: Spiegel Online , August 12, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Ballmer, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ballmer, Steven Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan